Mastodawn

the three values of a boolean, just how hofstadter wrote it up

#geb #zendo #mu

Wrote a passion piece about 2 of my favourite books.

Gödel, Escher, Bach, Wallace: the "o's, d's and p's" in Infinite Jest

"the [typographic encoding] becomes the smoking gun in the case against Avril Incandenza when you appreciate Wallace's intellectual debt to Douglas Hofstadter and Gödel, Escher, Bach – a debt the essay documents in detail below."

https://www.chiply.dev/post-reperspectivizing-orin

#infinitejest #davidfosterwallace #typography #geb #literature

Gödel, Escher, Bach, Wallace: the "o's, d's and p's" in Infinite Jest

Content note: This essay necessarily discusses child sexual abuse and incest as implicit elements of Infinite Jest, and includes excerpts from the novel contain...

Charlie Holland's Blog

Golarion Today Mar 26

26 Pharast: Conquest Day
#Nex #Geb #ConquestDay
https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Conquest_Day
A national holiday in which citizens of Nex renew their pledge to conquer their eternal enemy, Geb. It is a day for words of honor, a day for battle cries, and a day where glory most …

Klay Mar 6

Weird how many nerd fandoms seem to have the same people in them, right? Rhythm games, conlangs, math and computing, puzzles and paradoxes. I've been calling this "the GEB Orbit", because if you're into two or more of these things, you're probably in the target audience for Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter, a book I would describe as "the spiritual precedessor to xkcd."

#geb #xkcd #fandom #convergence

Golarion Today Feb 17

17 Calistril 4722 AR: Geb signs
#Geb #AlehAlmaktou #4722AR
https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Aleh_Almaktoum
Geb signs and issues a purported annotated edition of the Aleh Almaktou, a series of papyrus scrolls considered the definitive Osirian treatise and spellbook on necromancy.

yo shi Feb 14

#jouRapNal #book18 day 63

20260214Sat

#3goodThings #language #Norwegian #Nordic #threeGoodThings

#galentines #palentines #geb

Golarion Today Jan 31

Thanatopsis Parade
#Geb #Mechitar #ThanatopsisParade #NemretNoktoria
https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Nemret_Noktoria
The Blood Lords provide an annual tribute of corpses and live slaves in the hundreds. These are transported in a grand festival from Geb’s palace in Mechitar all …

Golarion Today Jan 11

11 Abadius: Ascension Day
#Geb #Arazni
https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Arazni
On the anniversary of her coronation, Arazni used to endure a Gebbite state holiday featuring feasting on slain humanoid chattel. While not necessarily the day that she attained full godhood, …

Shane Rogers Jan 3

Picked this up today after hearing about it the other day. I like (to think that I like) complicated books, and might even try to work this one into the rotation.

I can dream, right?

#GEB #books #bookstodon

Golarion Today Dec 20

Kuthona: Visitation
#Yled #Geb
https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Yled
An overnight freeze grips the city every year, freezing some citizens to death. The quick and the dead alike stay indoors, avoid the streets, gather in huge numbers, share meals, and turn the night fe…